“The man who has sued former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert, seeking the unpaid balance of an alleged $3.5 million hush-money pact over decades-old sexual abuse, will be named publicly during an upcoming civil trial,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

“If I were to fall dead right here, my obituary in tomorrow’s papers wouldn’t be that good.”

— Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), quoted by the Chicago Tribune.

New York Times: “The fallout from a damaging report that found Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women widened on Monday when Roberta A. Kaplan, a nationally prominent lawyer with ties to the governor, resigned from Time’s Up, the organization founded by Hollywood women to fight sexual abuse and promote gender equality.”

“Ms. Kaplan, the chairwoman of Time’s Up and the co-founder of its legal defense fund, was one of several prominent figures whom the report found to be involved in an effort to discredit one of Mr. Cuomo’s alleged victims, and she has continuing legal ties to a former Cuomo aide accused of leading that effort.”

Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) told Axios she thinks her sex scandal was “politically survivable” and she’s contemplating another run for Congress.

Said Hill: “You really wonder how much of it was the pressure I put on myself because I was a woman, and because I’d been an advocate for the #MeToo movement, and how much of it was sexism and … the public shaming aspect of it, the revenge-porn aspect of it.”

“Just two years ago, nearly every national politician in the Democratic Party was calling for Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia to resign. A racist picture was discovered on Mr. Northam’s medical school yearbook page, and the physician-turned-politician said he did not know which person he was in the photograph — the white man dressed in blackface or the one in Ku Klux Klan regalia,” the New York Times reports.

“A series of twists helped Mr. Northam stay in office, including simultaneous scandals that engulfed his possible successors, a cross-generational coalition of Black activists who decided to defy national politics and stick by him, and a commitment from Mr. Northam’s administration to prioritize racial justice. And he followed through, shocking even his most ardent supporters, with a series of policy accomplishments that focused on racial equity.”

Bridget Anne Kelly, the former aide for then-Gov. Chris Christie who served prison time after becoming enmeshed in the ‘Bridgegate’ scandal, is now the sole Republican candidate for Bergen County Clerk, NJ.com reports.

Kelly famously sent an email in 2013 saying “time for traffic problems in Fort Lee” which triggered lane closures on the George Washington Bridge as political payback to Fort Lee’s mayor.

Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) told the New York Times that he’s considered selling the photo of his erect penis inside his grey boxer shorts as a nonfungible token or NFT.

The accidentally-tweeted photo marked the beginning of the end of his political career and ultimately landed him in prison.

Said Weiner: “Cashing in would be nice.”

“The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore,” the AP reports.

“Suddenly embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has denied the allegations, rebuffed suggestions that he resign and sent fundraising appeals that portray him as a victim of a ‘smear campaign.'”

“The congressman joins a growing list of politicians from both parties — almost exclusively men — who are defying the traditional response to controversy. Rather than humbly step back from public life, they barrel ahead, insisting they did nothing wrong and betting that voters will forget alleged misdeeds once the news cycle eventually shifts.”

Although Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) denied having an extramarital affair with Cesaire McPherson, there was audio of a conversation between Merrill and McPherson which proved otherwise.